While you're right, the specs don't look "That Exciting", it might allow them to price well below the market for "New brand name phone" and snap up sales (lets face it, most users don't know Snapdragon from an Exynos).

I'd wager that got them most of the Lumia sales too. "New smart phone? Lots of storage? $199?! I'm in!" for people who weren't thinking if they needed the ecosystem.

Without tooting my own horn, I've gotten pretty good at figuring a companies lateral sales angles; and I think they're going to nail this one.....

Wherever you go in life, watch out for Scythe, the tackling IT support guy.

"I don't care what race you are, not one f*cking bit, if you want to be seen as a good people, you go in there and you f*ck up the people who (unofficially) represent you in a negative light!"

China is full of really shitty chargers, there's probably lots of LiPo batteries exploding left right and centre.

(Seriously, I've seen teardowns of Chinese chargers where your device is literally live at mains potential. Capacitive dropper, no regulation, no isolation.)

While that's a very distinct possibility, my colleague doesn't seem to think so.

Trusting him; chinese people with money to buy things like an iPhone wont buy anything made in china.

Milk is Australian, Cars are German, Electronics are German. Apparently they dont even trust the 'big names' from other asian countries. (TCL, ASUS, Mitsubishi)

It's EU\AU or nothing.

Also, apparently apple has some 'prestige' over there.

I'm going to go with the 'apple coverup theory'. They managed it when macbook batteries started exploding (the batch made by Sony IIRC, and IIRC, they took out someones legs). almost no one heard about it. So I do believe its in their power to pay people off.

But, I do agree, it's all hearsay and conjecture.

Edited by Master_Scythe, 10 January 2017 - 09:41 AM.

Wherever you go in life, watch out for Scythe, the tackling IT support guy.

"I don't care what race you are, not one f*cking bit, if you want to be seen as a good people, you go in there and you f*ck up the people who (unofficially) represent you in a negative light!"